I made or repurposed a plastic storage box to get my shrub cuttings to root and keep them in a moist and humid environment
I took the lid off a week since planting the Hydrangea cuttings in sand. They are still moist and don't need watering.
The box cost me nothing and it's now a cuttings greenhouse.
It holds ten small plant pots of cuttings.
August is a good month for taking shrub cuttings like Hydrangeas.
It's been a wonderful year for flowers in particular. Why not take some cuttings of your favourite shrubs?
I have taken some cuttings from our cape daisy as one section of it had got flattened by one of the local cats. I selected three healthy looking tips and just stuck them into a small pot of our home made garden compost. They seem to be surviving well so I hope to plant them out in the Spring. This afternoon I cut back the lavender as it was getting very leggy but I haven't bothered to keep the cuttings - they are currently making our compost bin smell gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHi JayCee. I have Cape Daisies sprouting roots in glasses of water and I planted twenty of them in sand today. Lavender is a meditation plant and hates our wet winters. It's always worth getting a few sprigs to root and keep them indoors in case of them rotting or freezing like the winter of 2010. Hydrangeas cuttings can be taken now.
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